IIHR has been developing, modeling, and designing hydraulic structures since the institute’s earliest days. From locks and dams on the Upper Mississippi River to the Thames Tideway Tunnel Project, researchers and shop support services at IIHR have paved the way for innovative hydraulic engineering. Hydraulic structures have taken many forms at IIHR, including weirs, dropshafts, […]
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Floyd Nagler, IIHR’s First Director
by Cornelia F. Mutel Floyd Nagler, IIHR’s founding director, focused his entire life on making a difference. One could see it in his tending of his large vegetable garden (he felt fresh foods were crucial to his family’s health). And in how he took over the pulpit when his minister traveled elsewhere (he wanted to […]
Highlights: History of Hydraulics
by Hunter Rouse From Books at Iowa 38 (April 1983) Copyright: University of Iowa UI Special Collections [See also Rare Book Collection] If the word hydraulics is understood to mean the use of water for the benefit of mankind, then its practice must be considered to be even older than recorded history itself. Traces of […]
Rare Book Collection
IIHR’s History of Hydraulics (HOH) collection has been called one of the best scholarly collections of historic hydraulics books in existence. More than 500 volumes spanning the past 2,000 years are included, with an emphasis on scientific (rather than applied) hydraulics. The collection includes both reprints and original publications, some of which are quite rare. […]
History of Hydraulics
IIHR’s former director, Hunter Rouse, wrote two widely used books on the history of hydraulics: History of Hydraulics (with S. Ince, 1957), and Hydraulics in the United States 1776–1976 (1976). The first has been widely translated, and both remain standard references volumes. He also assembled a major collection of rare books on the history of […]
Leonardo da Vinci
Professor Emeritus Enzo Macagno is considered an international expert on Leonardo da Vinci. Beginning in the 1960s, he and his colleague and wife, Matilde Macagno, published numerous articles and many IIHR monographs on the interpretation, analysis, and synthesis of da Vinci’s codices and manuscripts as they relate to fluid-flow and transport phenomena. Macagno can read […]
Archive Collections Policy
Mission Statement The IIHR Archive contains papers, photographs, and objects to be preserved, in perpetuity, for studies of the history of IIHR and its efforts related to hydraulic engineering, research, and education. These archives are to remain available for use by students and scholars, both within and outside the University of Iowa, conducting studies related […]
Instrumentation and Technology
One of IIHR’s strengths is found in its continuing visionary commitment to maintaining and enhancing its experimental facilities, while at the same time pioneering efforts in high-speed computational analysis and simulation of complex flow phenomena. This combination perhaps makes IIHR unique among fluids research laboratories, and permits varying, yet complementary, approaches for investigation and solution […]
Hydraulic Structures
IIHR has built a number of scale replicas of hydraulic structures—click on any image below to see a gallery.
LACMRERS Facilities and Equipment
Size: 8,250 ft2 Location: 3388 Highway 22, Muscatine, Iowa 52761-8307 Floor plan LACMRERS serves as a field station with 8,250 total square feet of laboratory, classroom, office, and shop space. Field Equipment LACMRERS houses sampling and monitoring equipment for biological and chemical research: Nets and waders Alkalinity kits Multiprobes River samplers (for parts-per-billion analysis) and […]
